中文简介：

这一更新版内容全面，图文并茂，调查了英国知名艺术家彼得·布莱克（Peter Blake）的生活和工作。自20世纪60年代初作为波普艺术运动的主要成员出现以来，彼得·布莱克已经成为他那一代人中最知名和****的艺术家之一。虽然他主业是一名画家，但他的作品涉猎广泛，涵盖了素描、水彩画、拼贴画、雕塑、版画，以及图形和专辑封面形式的商业艺术，其中最知名的是他在1967年为披头士乐队设计的专辑《佩珀中士》。本书探索了彼得·布莱克从20世纪50年代到现在的非凡创作成果，是对这位艺术家的生活和工作进行的全面插图调查。马可·利文斯通（Marco Livingstone）将布莱克的艺术深深植根于他的工人阶级出身，在他1950年代早期到中期的苦乐参半的画作中，发现了对童年纯真的渴望，这些画作描绘了儿童阅读漫画或去电影院看周六日场的情景。布莱克在伦敦皇家艺术学院学习期间就开始关注流行的娱乐活动，将其作为绘画的主题和正式解决方案的来源。20世纪50年代，布莱克直接表达了他对大众文化的热情，这使他在波普艺术运动还没有被命名之前就进入了该运动的前列，并且独立于英国、美国和欧洲其他艺术家对类似领域的调查。特别是他1959-62年的拼贴画的激进性质，他将流行文化中现有的图像与毫不掩饰的大胆明亮的色彩相结合，使他成为英国波普艺术中一个具有独特影响力的人物。这个全更新版本包括一个新的章节，介绍了艺术家戏说为“晚期”的阶段，在这个时期，布莱克继续以不减的精力挖掘其艺术的许多方面，并完成了一些他雄心勃勃的长期项目。除了布莱克作品的规模之外，我们还可以清楚地看到他作品中千变万化的主题、形式和媒介，以及他的幽默和友好的吸引力，最重要的是他对生命和人性的赞美。

英文简介：

A fully updated edition of the most comprehensive illustrated survey of the life and work of Peter Blake, one of Britain's most popular artists. Since his emergence in the early 1960s as a key member of the Pop Art movement, Peter Blake has become one of the best-known and most popular artists of his generation. Though primarily a painter, he has worked across many media, from drawings, watercolours and collages to sculpture and printmaking, as well as commercial art in the form of graphics and album covers - most notably his design for The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper album in 1967. Exploring his remarkable creative output from the 1950s to the present, Peter Blake is the most comprehensive illustrated survey available of the life and work of the artist. Marco Livingstone grounds Blake's art firmly in his working-class origins, identifying a yearning for the innocence of childhood in his bittersweet paintings of the early to mid-1950s that depict children reading comics or going to the Saturday matinee at the cinema.From that moment, while studying at the Royal College of Art in London, Blake concerned himself with popular entertainments as subject matter, and as the source of formal solutions, for his paintings. The directness with which Blake gave expression to his enthusiasms for mass culture during the 1950s brought him to the forefront of the Pop Art movement before it had even been named, and independently of the investigations into similar areas by other British, American and European artists. The radical nature of his collage paintings of 1959-62, in particular, in which he combined existing imagery from popular culture with unapologetically bold and bright colours, made him a singularly influential figure within British Pop.This fully updated edition includes a new chapter on what the artist has jokingly styled his 'Late Period', in which Blake has continued to mine the many strands of his art with undiminished energy and completed some of his most ambitious long-standing projects. As well as the sheer scale of Blake's production, what becomes clear is the kaleidoscopic variety of subject matter, form and medium to be found in his work, its humour and friendly appeal, and, above all, its celebration of life and humanity.